Word: masochist
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...Biggest Masochist in Harvard-Yale game: Yale immortal Brian Dowling, who in addition to quarterbacking Yale in that famous 1968 29-29 tie, also returned punts, which is about as safe as running a sweep behind the pulling block of Kingman Brewster...
...year-old graduate of Long Beach State, has discovered a fighting streak in herself. "Ninety percent of rowing is between the ears," she says. "You don't have to be born an athlete." Carol Brown, 22, a political science major at Princeton, admits, "I'm a masochist. I like to work myself very hard...
While not looking good wearing out his hands on Ali, Sheed raises but fails to provide adequate answers to a number of fairly basic questions. Is Ali really a bright fellow, though only semiliterate? What moves him? Is he a masochist? (This is not a basic question, but an idle one, suggested to Sheed by Ali's odd stratagem in Zaire of letting George Foreman punch him in the belly for several rounds.) If Ali really does receive his energy and impulses directly from the TV camera's red eye, as Sheed seems to believe, what will...
...Hedda's sinister admirer Judge Brack, Timothy West is as sensually menacing as a puff of cigar smoke. If Patrick Stewart's Luvborg has "vine leaves in his hair," they are not Greek but plastic. As Hedda's husband, a timid soul and a baffled marital masochist who dotes on books, Peter Eyre salvages the only acting honors in this debacle...
...tree, and we did. It was one of the most moving [?!] experiences of my life. We expected to get killed. It was like watching the dogs go after the foxes." This really wins the prize. I never said this insane garbage, if I had I'd deserve the Masochist of the Year award. What did inspire me was the tremendous spirit of people during the bust. Unlike foxes being chased by hounds, it was a tremendous, collective sort of heroism, with everyone much more concerned about each other and about the issues than about ourselves. Locked inside University Hall, ready...